WINGATE, Edmond (1594-1656), of Ampthill, Beds. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Family and Education

bap. 2 Apr. 1594, 2nd s. of Roger Wingate of Flamborough, Yorks. and Bourne End, Beds. and Jane, da. of Henry Birch of Sundon, Beds.J.H. Blundell, ‘Wingate of Streatley and Harlington’, Pub. Beds. Hist. Rec. Soc. viii. 173; Vis. Beds. (Harl. Soc. xxi), 151, 201. educ. Queen’s, Oxf. 12 Oct. 1610, BA 30 June 1614;Al. Ox. G. Inn 24 May 1614.GI Admiss. 134; PBG Inn, i. 354. m. 28 July 1628, Elizabeth, da. and h. of Richard Button of Wootton, Beds., wid. of William Crawshawe of London, 5s. 2da.Genealogia Bedfordiensis, 2, 3, 196, 204, 329, 330, 337; Beds. Par. Regs. ed. F.G. Emmison (Bedford, 1931-53), pp. xvii. A5, A6: Vis. Beds. 89, 151, 201. bur. 13 Dec. 1656 13 Dec. 1656.Ath. Ox. iii. 426.

Offices Held

Court: English tutor to Henrietta Maria, c.1624.Ath. Ox. iii. 424.

Local: commr. sewers, Beds. 20 Feb. 1636.C181/5, f. 38. Jt. kpr. Beckerings Park, Ridgmond, Beds. 1 Dec. 1643.Beds. RO, CH 567–8. J.p. Beds. 11 Mar. 1647–d.C231/6, pp. 81, 170, 218. Commr. assessment, 7 Apr. 1649, 10 Dec. 1652, 24 Nov. 1653; Yorks. (E. Riding) 7 Apr., 7 Dec. 1649, 26 Nov. 1650, 10 Dec. 1652;A. and O.; An Act for an Assessment (1653, E.1062.28); CJ vii. 227a. sewers, 22 June 1654;C181/6, pp. 47, 192. ejecting scandalous ministers, Beds. 28 Aug. 1654;A. and O. oyer and terminer, Northern circ. 4 Apr. 1655.C181/6, p. 101.

Legal: called, G. Inn 24 Nov. 1645;GI Admiss. 134; PBG Inn, i. 354. bencher, Nov. 1649.PBG Inn, i. 374.

Civic: dep. recorder, Bedford by May. 1650–d.Min. Bk. of Bedford Corp. 36, 112.

Central: commr. to examine miscarriages of trustees and surveyors for sale of forfeited estates, 27 May 1656–d.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 337.

Parlimentarian

WINGATE, Edmond (1594-1656), of Ampthill, Beds. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

: of Ampthill, Beds. and Mdx., Gray’s Inn.

Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

WINGATE, Edmond (1594-1656), of Ampthill, Beds. and Gray’s Inn, Mdx.

Will

admon. 28 Feb. 1657.PROB6/33, f. 27v.

Estates

lived in Church St., Ampthill, Beds.A. Underwood, ‘The case against Hugh Reeve, a seventeenth cent. recusant’, Beds. Hist. Misc. (Beds. Hist. Recs. Soc. lxxii), 72.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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